Street lights - having pace with the modifications

East Sussex County Council is amongst the most innovative community authorities in its technique to street lighting and has introduced a significant variety of improvements to its street lighting to reduce its electrical power bill and carbon footprint, which includes the rollout of modern LED engineering.



In 2010 ESCC started off to search at approaches to conserve electrical power and minimize CO2 emissions via lowering the wattage of our street lights and by turning off street lights inside the early hours from the morning throughout the county. By 2012 the fast advances in LED technological innovation meant that LED street lighting grew to become far more affordable; giving great light excellent whilst also delivering financial savings linked with ongoing upkeep.



In April 2013 our contractor started changing our street lighting on residential streets in Eastbourne from conventional lighting to contemporary, value helpful LED lighting. This task is now approaching completion and we will have replaced around six,000 with the original lanterns with LED lanterns, minimizing our electrical energy consumption by roughly ￠G150,000 each year and our CO2 emissions by 900 tonnes. A equivalent task, starting in April 2014, will adhere to on in Hastings and need to provide a similar level of cost savings.



On top of that, all street lighting column replacements are now being developed and set up utilizing LED lanterns so more electrical energy and CO2 savings will likely be realised all over the county.



More than the previous few many years we now have also introduced numerous other changes to our street lights to save power, which include the introduction of dimming on key visitors routes in between midnight and 6am along with the set up of decrease wattage lighting. In 2012 we also changed our street lighting policy in order that it can be targeted when and in which it offers probably the most benefit.



The introduction of LED street lights will lower electricity consumption and CO2 emissions by an typical of 65%. Though the current LED lantern engineering is productive and fairly cost-effective it really is underneath continual improvement and East Sussex County Council will continue to liaise with companies to make sure that we keep pace with technological innovation to provide the benefits to East Sussex residents.